Pols’ Takes on First and Second Amendments Make List of Top 10 Quotations
Statements by two Tea Party candidates with unusual views of the First and Second Amendments have made a Yale law librarian’s list of the year’s top 10 quotations.
No. 6 on thelist is this, from unsuccessful GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle: “I hope that’s not where we’re going, but you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies. They’re saying: My goodness, what can we do to turn this country around?”
No. 9 on the list is this quotation from Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell: “You’re telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?”
The Associated Press has the news. The list was compiled by Fred Shapiro, associate librarian at Yale Law School and the editor of The Yale Book of Quotations.
Republicans aren’t the only politicians to make Shapiro’s list. There is this quotation in the seventh spot, from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “We have to pass the [health care] bill so you can find out what is in it.”
No. 1 on the list was a tie between another quotation by O’Donnell—“I’m not a witch”—and a statement by former BP CEO Tony Hayward, in the days after the oil spill. “I’d like to get my life back,” he said. Next on the list is a warning from airline passenger John Tyner: “If you touch my junk, I’m gonna have you arrested.”
